Seize The Moment! Transform Georgia For The 99%!

/ Steering Committee

This past Tuesday’s election results were a stunning popular repudiation of Trump’s neofascist MAGA movement and the GOP’s vicious brutality over the past two years.

A “Blue Tsunami” and across-the-board leftward shifts have overwhelmed voter suppression, gerrymandering, violent intimidation, and hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate spending to break 20 years of Republican control of the state government.

With the fascists routed, demobilized, and disorganized, we now have a historic opportunity to course correct and advance an agenda that centers the working class to reclaim our democratic, reproductive, and economic rights.

Democrats have won decisive majorities of the statewide popular vote, meaning our state government has a crucial responsibility and moral imperative to live up to the democratic mandate laid down by the people. The new Bottoms administration must seize the moment and deliver the transformative policy change that Georgia workers deserve.

Georgians deserve a state government that: 

  • passes the Reproductive Freedom Act to end the abortion ban
  • transitions to a 100% renewable green energy economy with publicly owned utilities so that the necessities for life are not tools for corporate profit and reliable public transportation across the state
  • protects communities from ICE terror by ending the 287(g) program so that immigrants and communities of color can live in the peace that every American deserves
  • guarantees healthcare, including trans and reproductive healthcare at all ages, as a human right because healthcare should not be tied to a job in an economy that is focused on replacing workers
  • provides reparations for slavery to Black communities to make up for the systemic inequities Black communities still experience to this day
  • repeals anti-labor right-to-work laws and makes it easier for workers to unionize, collectively bargain and strike, including in the public sector
  • ends partisan gerrymandering and corporate spending in elections through fair, proportional, publicly-financed elections because elections should be about policy, not about how much money corporations and billionaires can spend
  • divests from and concretely opposes war and genocide abroad through ending the GILEE program amongst others
  • alleviates the burden of the cost of living for working families through deeply-affordable social housing, paid family leave, and a living minimum wage of $20 per hour so that having a family doesn’t mean financial hardship.

The people of Georgia have just delivered a historic refutation of corruption for the ultra-rich billionaire elite, and deserve a state government that works for working people to make everyone’s lives better.

Make no mistake: right-wing forces are already working to sabotage and undermine the people’s mandate. Despite decisively losing the popular vote for State Senate, the Republicans have held onto the chamber by a single vote through their extreme gerrymandering.

The GOP’s continued control of the State Senate runs contradictory to basic democratic principles, is fundamentally illegitimate, and must be shattered and broken through mass popular action.

But these Republicans will not be the only ones standing in the way: the corporations, lobbyists, and billionaires typified by The Atlanta Way will do everything they can to prevent this working class agenda from becoming a reality by leveraging the many moderate cowards, corporate stooges, and sell-out opportunists embedded throughout the Democratic Party to obstruct and co-opt the will of the people.

Over the coming weeks and months, Atlanta DSA and other grassroots organizations will continue organizing to ensure that we overcome resistance from reactionaries in both parties and clear the path for transforming Georgia for working people.

We are entering a new era for our state, and our struggle for social, racial, ecological, and economic justice is only just beginning. 

A better Georgia is possible, but only if we work for it. 

DSA is growing a mass movement of the working class by building worker power beyond the ballot box, in our streets, communities, and workplaces, and we need your help to do it.

Join DSA today to be part of the fight for a democratic socialist future!

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